Bottoms Up

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From medieval power drinking
To Days of Wine and Roses
Bacchanals 
Then Leaving Las Vegas

Now we all stay hydrated
Twenty four seven
With personal bottles of
Cool Cool Water

Water

Meanwhile in saloons it's
Guzzle Guzzle Guzzle
As they shove it down their muzzle
These are the words we like to hear

MORE BEER!

Maintenance drinking
Binge drinking
Drinking with intent
Or drinking in place

Temperance to tolerance
The bar bill for the signers 
Of the Declaration of  Independence
Was ginormous

Cruisin' & Boozin'

Through history it's clear
Spirits were everywhere
Even where they shouldn't be


Then there was my girl
The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS June 14, 2025

June 13 2025

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The Daily Dread

Yesterday

seems like all the dark
in all the shadows wants to
spill out all at once



floating on a raft
of graft, war profiteers are
cashing in big time



red-winged black bird nests
fills the shoreline with joyous
distinctive bird song

The way of life is transformational 
Not exclusionary 

naked and displayed
murder primates of earth have
shed their human skin


He thinks Joseph Stalin was a good man.
Says he did some good things for the Chinese.

This is the sort of thing that makes one grateful for semi-consciousness

"War is a racket" Major General Smedley D. Butler#Friday13 #musicwww.youtube.com/watch?v=JEmI…

— AmbientDread (@ambientdread.bsky.social) 2025-06-13T11:34:16.816909Z

Bike Rack

June 12 2025

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The Daily Dread

Yesterday

this ain't gunna be
no sprint, it's a cross country
long haul muddy slog 


mosquitos plotting
no more cold night genocide
electro warfare
activate the larvae guard
bug zapper suicide charge



Each choice. Each moment.
Molds a moment of its own.
Shape-shifting streaming.

Don’t Fear the Wheel

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The priesthood of the red robed Lobster cult in charge of the Inquisition said, “It wasn’t cruel to break someone on the wheel.” With a labyrinth of pious accusations and rationalizations they would soak the ground with the blood of the yellow robed Crab cult. This ushered in the rocking age of Blue Oyster cult.

Can You Tell A Story In…

June 11 2025

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The Daily Dread

Yesterday

Feel the cruel beat
Of loud war drums on the field
Don't lose the back beat



Breath of the tall grass
Lose yourself to the swaying



Lie in the tall grass
Watch dark smoke clouds roll on by
Duck and cover life



Goals are very clear
Fuel the magic mirror
Showing things to take
That other people make

whose job will it be
to scrape the remnants of
our constitution 
off military windscreen 
of it's short lived history



grounded corporeal
vessel on shopping mall reef
of consumerism
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June 10 2025

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The Daily Dread

Yesterday

the natty flea flies
out without it’s overcoat
in a flea-brained flight

a fortuitous
well timed flip can make or break
societies yoke

I’ve noted that when
a conservative bangs on
about having #skin
in the game it’s always our
skin in their rigged corrupt game

Photo of a leaky fire hydrant

Wordle

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RDP

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Detached
Ambivalent
Neutral

That's how I feel
About today's Wordle

Wordle 1,452 X/6

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So many words
So few spaces
Played with 
No protection
No strategy
No googling
No hints

Played like I play golf
The more swings
The more fun
The more words
The more better
Photo by Narsimha Rao Mangu on Pexels.com
Too many words
Idling in my noggin
Not in Park
But in Neutral
Better than Reverse
One 
Two 
Three on my tree


Rationalization you say
Obstinate maybe
Blown clutch perhaps
A.I. image generated from prompts, "blown clutch"
Craiyon

Detached
Ambivalent
Neutral

Fortunately all with
Too many letters
To be a Wordle answer

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June 9 2025

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The Daily Dread

Yesterday

some podcasts make you
take the gish gallop challenge
turn nonsense to sensem

typical response
to unwanted advances
is cold as shaved ice

Spending time doing things I know I can’t do.

Some people are working very hard to make a future that would feel very much at home in the past.

For immediate release:

Proud recipient a Small Lifetime Achievement Medal
in 2025 Extreme Existence Mismanagement Games

Time to update my résumé

End brain defragmentation program

creep, the creeping creep’s
cootie constellation choir
croaks conspiracies

The Unjolly Green Giant

June 8 2025

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The Daily Dread

Yesterday

when we all try to
dance to a different tune
it’s best to spread out

Holly Roller was
disco inferno hot that
night on the dance floor

Every single day
M.A.A.A. works overtime
To Make America Ashamed Again

Melting of sense into nonsense
Messenger for the burning agony. The Red Book

#SilentSunday

— AmbientDread (@ambientdread.bsky.social) 2025-06-08T12:21:22.522098Z